RE: MI Label expression ?

2000-09-10 Thread Wright, Kevin
Dave, Two issues with that. 1. I am assuming that you put that expression into the auto-label area as an expression. That won't quite work because MapInfo will return the result of that query (Which would be "T" for true) as a label. What you want is to only show labels for

RE: MI ESRI Shapefile and MapX Compatibility Question

2000-09-05 Thread Wright, Kevin
Dave, The reason why MapX cannot get the projection is because that shapefiles do not keep information about projection. Thus there is no way for MapX to read it. Thanks, Kevin Wright ICF Consulting Senior GIS Associate 9300 Lee Highway Fairfax, Virginia 22031-1207

RE: MI Locate nearest...

2000-08-25 Thread Wright, Kevin
If you don't want to write a MapBasic (or don't have it) routine, then try this out. Create five new float type columns in your table. Labels: (or something like this) Long1 Lat1 Long2 Lat2 Distance * Update the long1 column in your whole table with the longitude and the Lat1 with the

RE: MI exporting maps to word

2000-08-24 Thread Wright, Kevin
Folks, Bill's idea works well. Another way to reduce pixilation (is that the proper word?) is to increase the size of the output image. The default is the size of the map window or layout page size. If it is 8.5 x 11 change it to 17 x 22. This will get you a much larger files size

MI: Open Table Interactive confusion

2000-08-24 Thread Wright, Kevin
Hello All, Could anyone explain to me the logic behind the usage of the "Interactive" keyword in the "Open Table" statement? It seems that MI decides randomly whether to place the "Interactive" keyword at the end of that statement. It would seem to me that it should put it on ALL open